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Excision (Noun)

Meaning¹

The act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society.

Classification

Nouns denoting acts or actions.

Synonyms

Excommunication

Hypernyms

Banishment

Meaning²

The omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause".

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Examples

The author was upset by the excision of her favorite scene from the final manuscript.
The editor's excision of several key paragraphs changed the tone of the article entirely.
The team agreed on the excision of the confusing language from the instructions.
The publisher made several excisions to the original text to reduce the book's length.
The writer was relieved that the excision of the embarrassing anecdote had been done tactfully.